Re: Mvbase/D3 Forms print more than once



"Rodney Frisard" wrote
Every once in a while a print job will reprint (get to end of report and
start again). Happens on laser printers with network connections,
and a line printer on a network print server.
What's the underlying operating system? Have you checked printer logs
for messages like 'timeout waiting for job complete, resending print job?'

Suggest you, for now, train another server on the LAN how to reach all
the affected printers, and divert your jobs to bounce off that server. Pick
a bounce-guy that has an OS offering really good print subsystem logging...
If worst comes to worst, you can train the bounce guy to discard the
duplicate jobs based on length and hash of first 2kbyte dd blocks being
same as a recent job, but that's from hunger, man. Google on how to get
your main server's print subsystem tweaked to be more patient of slow
'print job completion' status back from the ultimate destination printers.
Consider posting in an OS-related or CUPS-related newsgroup {if your
OS uses CUPS to print} for best results. Oh, if you _are_ using CUPS
on linux, consider installing lpd from an older release install cdrom, and
see if that doesn't work better for you. Or fetch the latest CUPS patches.


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